I am a creative writing tutor, novelist and librarian.
I teach on the Oxford University MSt, Undergraduate Diploma and Online courses, and am interested in both the close examination of fiction and how recent technologies such as ebooks and print-on-demand are changing the publishing industry and offering fresh opportunities to writers.
I studied English at Keble College, Oxford, and from 1995 to 2008 reviewed fiction for a variety of publications that included The Times, TLS and Financial Times. (See Reviews for a list of my journalism. If you'd like a PDF of a particular piece, please email contact@frankegerton.com.)
My first novel The Lock was published in paperback in 2003, the ebook version having reached the finals of the Independent e-Book Awards in Santa Barbara the previous year. My second, Invisible, was published by StreetBooks in October 2010 ("...lively wit and acute understanding of the emotional landscape." Kate Saunders, The Times).
I'm a member of the Society of Authors and The Association of Writers and Writing Programs. I was chair of Writers in Oxford from 2008-2010 and edited the Oxford Writer from 2002-2004.
I work as a librarian at the Taylor Institution and am Librarian and Subject Consultant at the Bodleian Latin American Centre Library.
I live in west Oxfordshire.
The StreetBooks paperback edition of my second novel, Invisible, is available from Amazon UK as well as other online retailers and bookshops (ISBN 978-0-9564242-0-4). See Invisible -- and Publishing to buy copies or download StreetBooks .pdf of Invisible Part One
